Soundwave said:
I'm not even sure "Wii changed the industry". It was red hot for a few years, but it's like saying Guitar Hero changed the industry ... not in the long term really.
As the console market is today and has been for a long time now, the regular Playstation and XBox are what make up most of the industry, it's like 2006-2010 may as well have not even happened.
Whereas the NES, SNES, and N64 are Nintendo's most revolutionary consoles in the long run as you can still see their influence on the overall market today everywhere you look ... you see the d-pad, you see the cross 4-button layout, you see rumble, and you see the analog stick eveywhere.
If you walked into a EB Games or Best Buy today from like 2004 or something you'd barely notice motion gaming at all because it's not really a big thing anymore.
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I'd say that the Wii did change the industry. Without the Wii, we wouldn't have had Kinect or PS Move, and the efforts by all publishers to make games to target outside traditional audiences.
While Kinect and Move are muted this generation, they're still used by the current consoles. Not to mention the incredible effect Wii had on the smartphone gaming sector.
